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G8: La bella Italia
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G8: Trials and tribulations
July 9, 2009
Home sweet home
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Nobody expects much from the G8!
July 9, 2009
By Pascale Palmer
There were a lot of rumours flying round the G8 yesterday as world leaders fought it out at the negotiating table. China left due to the riots at home, and with them exited a major player on climate. But despite the conflicting whispers, most of what we were hearing sounded pretty grim at the half-way lunchtime mark.
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Faith and Development Leaders’ Meeting
July 9, 2009By Jacques Dinan Executive Secretary of Caritas Africa
At the invitation of the World Bank, I participated on 1st and 2 July 2009 at Accra, Ghana, in a high level meeting of religious leaders on service delivery, poverty and development. The meeting, jointly organized by the World Bank’s Development Dialogue on Values and Ethics and the World Faiths Development Dialogue, was funded by the World Bank and the United Kingdom’s Department for International Development (DFID). (more…)
G8: The much talked up whole country approach misses the point
July 6, 2009The Italian government is seeking to promote a new assessment instrument at the G8 – a ‘whole of country’ approach to development. This would include other contributions to international development that come from G8 countries, from other sources like the private sector and civil society ranging from trade and investment to remittances.
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Pope calls on G8 to hear the voice of Africa and the poor
July 6, 2009The full text of the pope’s letter (care of an National Catholic Reporter translation from the original Italian)
To Silvio Berlusconi, President of the Council of Ministers of Italy
Honorable Mr. President:
In view of the upcoming G8 meeting of the Heads of State and Government of the group of most industrialized countries, which will take place at L’Aquila July 8-10 under the presidency of Italy, I’m pleased to send cordial greetings to you and to all the participants. I gladly take this occasion to offer a reflection on the themes of the meeting, as I’ve done in the past. I’ve been informed by my collaborators about the commitment with which the government over which you have the honor of presiding is preparing for this important appointment, and I also know how much attention it’s given to the reflections which, with regard to the themes of upcoming summit, the Holy See, the Catholic church in Italy and the Catholic world in general, as well as representatives of other religions, have formulated.
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Food: The Fundamental Right
May 5, 2009
Caritas Australia has launched a report examining food shortages around the world. The report advocates a clear focus on the right to food. The current financial crisis will continue to compound the number of people living in dire poverty. The report looks at the complex and interrelated environmental, social and economic factors of the food crisis and what can be done.
Produced in consultation with Caritas Australia’s local partners across the globe, the report advocates a clear focus on the right to food. The current financial crisis will continue to compound the number of people living in dire poverty. Whilst the financial crisis sweeping the globe has or will affect us all in the developed world, it is the poorest in the developing world, those who are already teetering on the precipice of existence, who are most vulnerable. The paper begins by documenting the latest episode in the ongoing food crisis, the causes of which involve complex and interrelated environmental, social and economic factors.
Download Food the Fundamental Right.
Since world food prices began to soar in 2007, an additional 100 million people have been dragged into extreme poverty. The situation has been exacerbated by the global financial crisis — to the point where the United Nations now warns that for the first time ever, up to 1 billion people are at risk of starvation. Listen to Caritas Australia CEO Jack de Groot talk about the looming issue with Radio National.
G20: A view from Caritas Zambia
April 2, 2009By Milimo Mwiba, Caritas Zambia
I have unexpectedly been thrusted into the spotlight. I am the closest my country, Zambia, came to sitting at the G20 table. Okay, I might not have been able to adorn myself with the necessary passes to enter the Fort Knox Excel Centre on Thursday, where the world’s leaders met. But I did represent Zambia, and indeed the voices of billions of other Africans, at last weekend’s ‘Put People First’ march, and at the St Paul’s Cathedral debate with Gordon Brown and the Australian PM, Kevin Rudd.
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Pope’s letter on G20
April 1, 2009Pope Benedict XVI has sent British Prime Minister Gordon Brown a letter ahead of the Group of 20 summit to be held this week in London.
His Excellency
The Right Honourable Mr. Gordon Brown
Prime Minister
Dear Prime Minister,
During your recent visit to the Vatican, you kindly briefed me on the Summit taking place in London from 2 to 3 April 2009 with the participation of representatives from the world’s twenty largest economies. As you explained, the aim of this meeting is to coordinate, with urgency, measures necessary to stabilize financial markets and to enable companies and families to weather this period of deep recession, in order to restore sustainable growth in the world economy and to reform and substantially strengthen systems of global governance, in order to ensure that such a crisis is not repeated in the future.
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G20: Bring back ethics
March 30, 2009Fr Joe Komakoma, Secretary General of the Zambian Bishops Conference, gives his thoughts to World Leaders on the Put People First march in London, 28th March 2009. Care of Caritas England and Wales (CAFOD)
Secretary General of the Zambian Bishops Conference Fr Joe Komakoma addresses the people at the Put People First rally in London ahead of the G20. Fr Komakoma calls for climate justice
